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MANUPAGTURB 0F OIL @LOTE No.l 293,487. i Patented Feb. 12, 1884.

UNITED l STATES PATENTV OFFICE.

JOHN MGGAVIN AND E. GRAVFORD SANDFORD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MANUFACTURE oF OIL-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,487, dated February 12, 1884.

I Application filed January 10, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN MoGAvIN and E. CRAWFORD SANDFORD, citizens ofthe United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Oil-Cloth, of which the following is a specication. l

This invention relates to a new method of coloring and printing oil-cloth, and to the improved apparatus 4used for this purpose, the novel features being pointed out in thefollowing specification andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, Vin which- 1 Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus. lFig. 2 is a plan or top view ofthe same.

. Similar letters indicate correspon dingparts.

In the manufacture of oil-cloth as heretofore conducted, the oil-cloth is first coated with the ground color by passing `the same through asuitable machine, and then the required ornaments are printed thereon, which operation is usually performed by means of engraved wooden blocks. Our method consists in coating and printing the cloth in one continuous operation. For this purpose we use an apparatus such as represented inthe accompanying drawings, in which the letter A designates the frame, on one end of which is mounted the spindle B. On this spindle is wound the cloth to be colored and printed.

Above the spindle B is situated the box C, which contains the ground color, and which is provided with a gate, a, and with a doctor,

b. When the gate is openedand the cloth is drawn out from the roller beneath the box C, the color which `discharges from this box is spread over the surface ofthe cloth by the doctor Z, and the'surplus color is forced back toward the box, so as to give an even and uniform surface to the layer of color which remains ou the cloth. The clothV is then carried l through between the printing-cylinder D and the pattern-cylinder E, which are mounted in -the frame A and geared together, so that they revolve with a uniform superficial velocity. The pattern-cylinder is supplied with the required color by the color-roller F, which dips into the color contained in the fountain Gr, and which is geared together with said pattern' cylinder, so as to revolve with the same supercial velocity.

H is a drag-roller, which serves to drawthe cloth along after the sa me has passed through between the printing-cylinder andthe patternroller. Said drag-roller is covered with Wirecards, `or equivalent material capable of producing the desired effect upon the cloth. By .these means the operation of coloring and 6o printing oil-"lth can be effected in a comparatively short time, and various beautiful effects can be produced.

'It is evident that additional pattern-cylinders may be used.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. In the manufacture of oilcloth,the method herein described, 'consisting in coating and printing the cloth in one continuous operation.A 7o

2. The combination,substantially as hereinbefore described, of the color-box and doctor with the printing-cylinder and color-roller.

- 3. The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of the color-box and the doctor with the printing-cylinder, the pattern-cylinder, the color-roller, andthe dragroller.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the presence of two sub- 8o scribing witnesses. p

JOHLI MCGAVIN. [L 8.] E. CRAWFORD SANDFORD.` lL. 5.] Witnesses: p

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